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Graduate Programs

Future nurses and midwives, are you ready to unleash your potential? Join the Metro South family and be part of a world-class health service. See why over 60 per cent of applicants select Metro South Health as their first preference to begin their nursing and midwifery careers and choose from more than 50 different graduate programs to begin your journey to excellence with us.


Why Metro South?

  • Metro South Health delivers clinical care to more than 4,000 people each day – in hospital, in community settings and in the home.
  • Our Futures Lab brings people together to look at things differently and accelerate great ideas into solutions to health service challenges.
  • Our facilities are leading the way in environmental sustainability in healthcare, with initiatives from biodegradable kidney dishes to turning food waste into fertiliser.
  • Metro South Health graduates participate in the unique Insight program, allowing graduates to develop their own clinical improvement initiative.
  • Metro South Health is Australia’s first all-digital heath service, with no paper-based records used.

In this section

Our hospitals

Metro South Health offers graduate programs in locations that vary from community-based and rural services to tertiary hospitals. No matter which path you choose, when you join Metro South, you become a part of a world-class health service. Learn more about each of our facilities:

Our programs

Here at Metro South, there are more than 50 different programs to choose from to begin your journey to excellence with us. Whether it’s the thrill of the Emergency Department or the fulfilment of Paediatrics you’re looking for, now is your chance to find out why two-thirds of students prefer Metro South Health to begin their nursing and midwifery careers.

How to apply

If you would like to apply to Metro South Health to complete your graduate year, head to the Queensland Health Graduate Portal and apply now. The graduate portal opens on 25 July 2022.

Last updated 23 June 2022
Last reviewed 23 June 2022